Operations, internet services, and how to think about them.

F So you’re thinking about everything down to the iron and the wire in order to do QA accurately?

PS Yes.

BF That’s something a lot of us don’t think about.
We think about a computer as a computer and a network as a network and
don’t want to worry about any of that.

PS If you talk to my operations buddies, they will
tell you the way they think of the stack, too, goes all the way down to
the floor—to the electricity, to cooling, to bandwidth. We have to be
efficient at laying out the entire stack, repeatably, and verifying
that it’s built correctly.